Some Lenovo notebooks shipped with man-in-the-middle Superfish adware that breaks HTTPS connections, affects Chrome and Internet Explorer
Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections — Superfish may make it trivial for attackers to spoof any HTTPS website.
Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit
Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.
Google Inbox comes to iPad and Android tablets, supports Firefox and Safari as well as Chrome
Inbox by Gmail: now in more places — It's always hard to know when it's time to share a new product, because there's always just a _few_ more things you want to do.
Microsoft OneNote gets OCR support across all platforms and handwriting recognition on iPad
Handwriting in OneNote for iPad, and OCR Everywhere — People are more overwhelmed than ever by how much they need to remember on a daily basis. In fact, according to a 2013 survey commissioned …
Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect
its smart TV is indeed spying on you and it is doing nothing to stop that Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech : Samsung's Smart TVs don't just spy, they transmit your speech in unencrypted plaintext Himanshu Ar...
Now 25 years old, what's next for Photoshop? An interview with Adobe's Stephen Nielson
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Pandora testing a message service that lets artists send audio messages to fans
Pandora to Let Music Artists Like Lenny Kravitz Send Audio Messages to Fans (Video) — Even Pandora wants in on the messaging boom. — The music streaming service is launching a pilot test this week...
Revealed: The experts Apple hired to build an electric car
In the last few weeks we've heard about a poaching war between Apple and Tesla, a couple hires by Apple from the auto industry, and a whole lot of speculation followed by reports that Apple has a team...
Lenovo disabled Superfish in January, but the company says it has not found “evidence to substantiate security concerns”
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Revenge porn site operator Hunter Moore pleads guilty to hacking, ID theft
Moore, once deemed the “most hated man on the Internet,” ran IsAnyoneUp.com. — On Wednesday, Hunter Moore, 28, the notorious founder and operator of revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com pleaded guilty [...
UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility
A world-class country should have world-class Internet access. — A new report, published by the upper house of UK parliament—the House of Lords—has called for Internet access to be reclassified as a...
Accused Russian hacker Vladimir Drinkman pleads not guilty in US on charges related to hacking case that siphoned 160M+ credit card numbers
Russian national pleads not guilty in international hacking scheme — Multimillion-dollar worldwide hacking scheme revealed
YouTube prohibits sponsored overlays to keep creators from cutting Google out of ad revenues
YouTube makes a move against brand-sponsored videos — YouTube is putting down the clamps on video creators who work directly with brands, nudging them instead to rely on Google's sales team for deal...
Mozilla's VP in charge of Firefox Johnathan Nightingale to step down at the end of March
Home for a Rest — Earlier today, I sent this note to the global mozilla employees list. It was not an easy send button to push. — One of the many, many things Mozilla has taught me over the years...
Astropad is a $50 sketching app that mirrors a Mac display on an iPad at a high frame rate with functionality similar to a Wacom tablet
Astropad brings the Cintiq experience to your iPad — The iPad's made great progress in the sketching world, but it's still been hampered …
Babar, malware that monitors web activity and logs keystrokes, is tied to French spy agency
Meet Babar, a New Malware Almost Certainly Created by France — The NSA, GCHQ, and their allies in the Five Eyes are not the only government agencies using malware for surveillance.
YouTube sees 50% annual growth in views for the last three years, despite Facebook's focus on video
YouTube Says Growth Is Still Strong Despite Push From Facebook — YouTube's head of content says the video giant has seen 50% annual growth in views for the last three years …
T-Mobile tops Q4 estimates with a profit of $101M, revenue rises 20% to $8.15B
T-Mobile swings to Q4 profit as customer growth zooms along — The wireless carrier expects the momentum to continue into 2015, with the estimated addition of 2.2 million to 3.2 million new customers...
Samsung TVs aren't the only gadgets spying on you, list includes LG TV, Xbox Kinect, Amazon Echo, GM's Onstar and more
It's not just Samsung TVs — lots of other gadgets are spying on you — Earlier this month, Samsung was the target of a privacy dust-up due to a disturbing sentence …
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago
News broke earlier this week about the NSA's “most sophisticated” malware yet: An undetectable backdoor that can filter information to and from a hard drive, using the underlying framework of the driv...
Mobile Game Revenues to Grow 16.5% in 2015, Surpassing $3 Billion
Gaming leads growth of $10 billion mobile content market as ebook and music downloads stagnate — US mobile game revenues—including both downloads and in-app purchases—will grow 16.5% this year to re...
Ethertronics unveils active steering chip that helps Wi-Fi navigate obstacles, boosting range
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DeSoto, SF's oldest taxi firm, ditches 82-year old name for Flywheel, as part of co-marketing agreement with e-hailing app company
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White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist
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Pinterest is trying to raise another $500M, valuing the company at $11B (report)
Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat :
Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs
But Will Anyone Care?
Entertainment firm Whalerock creates online and app-based channels for celebrities to reach fans directly with paid and free programming
Brooks Barnes / New York Times :
NewCo, John Battelle's Event Startup, Raises $1.7M From Obvious, True Ventures And More
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Snapchat Now Lets You Shoot Video And Play Music At The Same Time
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Google Capital's first international expansion set for India
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal :
Samsung will buy Apple Pay competitor LoopPay
Steve Kovach / Business Insider :
Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat
Dustin Volz / National Journal :
Uber expands Series E round by $1B, bringing the total capacity for round up to $2.8B
Mike Isaac / New York Times :
Microsoft is killing Windows Phone's Rooms group chat
Sam Byford / The Verge :
Software maker K2 raises more than $100M to help businesses build custom applications
John Cook / GeekWire :
Vessel Strikes Deal With Universal Music for Exclusive Access to Some Music Videos
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code :
Storvisor Emerges as Springpath With $34 Million to Simplify Data Storage
Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal :
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